[Gluster-devel] AFR Replication

Anand Avati avati at zresearch.com
Fri Apr 18 14:22:59 UTC 2008


Gordan,
 you need extended attribute support in your backend fileystem for AFR (and
stripe) to work properly. Reiserfs supports xattr, but may not be enabled in
your system.

avati

2008/4/18, gordan at bobich.net <gordan at bobich.net>:
>
> I can see this in the logs:
> 2008-04-18 14:46:36 C [afr.c:6185:afr_check_xattr_cbk] foo: [CRITICAL]:
> 'foo2' doesn't support Extended attribute
> 2008-04-18 14:46:39 W [fuse-bridge.c:389:fuse_entry_cbk] glusterfs-fuse:
> 2: (34) / => 1 Rehashing 0/0
>
> On the other node, it says similar, only for foo1. These both point at
> node2.
>
> I'm using Reiser4 on node2 (ext3 on node1).
>
> Does this mean that Reiser4 is incompatible with GlusterFS? Is there a
> workaround?
>
> Gordan
>
> On Fri, 18 Apr 2008, gordan at bobich.net wrote:
>
>  On Fri, 18 Apr 2008, Krishna Srinivas wrote:
> >
> >  Specify the following option in server spec file:
> > > option auth.ip.foo.allow 192.168.*,127.0.0.1
> > >
> >
> > Thanks, that fixed half of the problem. However, I'm still not seeing
> > files that were created before the second node started.
> >
> > Here is what I'm trying to do:
> > Start node1 server,client
> > On node1, create files test1 and test2.
> >
> > Start node2 server,client
> > On node2, create file test3.
> >
> > test3 exists on both node1 and node2. test1,test2 only exist on node1. I
> > cannot see that file through the mount point on node2. Is this the expected
> > behaviour? Isn't the metadata supposed to be updated so that all files are
> > visible from all nodes?
> >
> > I am only using the AFR translator for mirroring.
> >
> > Gordan
> >
> >
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